Travelling convection vortices in the ionosphere map to the central plasma sheet

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1025-1031

  Yahnin, A ^a,b   Moretto, T ^a  

^a DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^b POLAR GEOPHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

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EID: 2842613611     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00585-996-1025-3     Document Type: Article

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